State
Gas leak repaired at Starkville Sprint Mart
Commercial Dispatch
No major issues have been reported after the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality investigated a reported gasoline leak at the Sprint Mart at the corner of Highway 12 and Airport Road in Starkville Friday.
Gas leak reported at Highway 12, Airport Road
Starkville Daily News
A gas leak has been reported at the Sprint Mart located on Highway 12, near Airport Road, according to local emergency management officials.
DEQ, STARKVILLE FIRE DEPARTMENT INVESTIGATING GAS SPILL
WCBI
STARKVILLE, Miss. (WCBI) Federal, State and local response teams are all heading to Starkville to investigate a major gas spill.
MEMA: UP TO TEN THOUSAND GALLONS OF GAS LEAKED FROM GAS STATION
WCBI
STARKVILLE, Miss. (WCBI) – Up to 10 thousand gallons of gas, that’s how much the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency said had leaked from tanks at a Starkville Gas station.
NO SAFETY CONCERNS FOLLOWING GAS SPILL IN OKTIBBEHA COUNTY
WTVA
STARKVILLE, Miss. (WTVA) - Currently, there are no safety concerns for citizens in Starkville following a gas spill on Highway 12 near Airport Road.
MDEQ lifts Water Contact Advisory for Hollis Creek
Starkville Daily News
The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality has lifted a general water contact advisory issued May 13 for a section of Hollis Creek in Oktibbeha County.
MDEQ lifts Hollis Creek water contact advisory
Commercial Dispatch
The Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality has lifted a water contact advisory for a section of Hollis Creek near the city's water treatment plant.
E.coli testing performed at Ross Barnett Reservoir
WLBT
ROSS BARNETT RESERVOIR, MS (Mississippi News Now) -cently, an independent group, testing the water at the Ross Barnett Reservoir, found high levels of E. coli in the water where the Dragon Boat Regatta is supposed to take place this weekend.
Memphis to end 40-year sewer service to Horn Lake
Commercial Appeal
Memphis will stop treating sewage from Horn Lake, Mississippi, in 2023, ending a 40-year agreement that Memphis officials say no longer serves the city.
Greenwood Looking for Money to Pour Down the Sewer
Delta Daily News
Greenwood Mayor Carolyn McAdams says the city needs money to replace aging sewer lines.
Biologists hold breath on spread of deer disease
Enterprise-Journal
All right, so deer disease is not the most appetizing topic for a lunchtime meeting. Fortunately, nobody was eating venison when wildlife biologist Russ Walsh updated the McComb Rotary Club on Chronic Wasting Disease Wednesday at Golden Corral.
Fishing Mississippi's Inshore Artificial Reefs
How to fish the state's coastline for big black drum, redfish and other game fish
Sport Fishing
“You’ve gotta try fishing our inshore reefs!” Capt. Sonny Schindler had told me, months before I traveled to the Mississippi coast to do just that. “They’ve really been complete game-changers for inshore-fishing guides in this area,” added Schindler, based in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, just west of Gulfport.
Regional
Memphis to build $500,000 trail system to settle pollution case
Commercial Appeal
Two years after pollution from a series of sewer failures killed thousands of fish, Memphis has agreed to spend $500,000 building trails that will promote recreation while also providing city inspectors access to remote sewer lines for maintenance purposes.
Illegal dumping cases up sharply in Memphis area
Commercial Appeal
At a remote dead-end near the Wolf River in North Memphis, a truck pulled up recently with load of used furniture and mattresses and unceremoniously dumped it before driving off into the night.
Treatment begins to clean up North Carolina Superfund site
AP
Federal officials say treatment is underway to clean up contaminants in the groundwater and soil at a North Carolina Superfund site.
National
Pruitt: 'This is a transformational time'
The Hill
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) chief Scott Pruitt told a conservative gathering Friday that he and President Trump are overseeing policy changes that will be felt for decades.
Trump: Pruitt ‘is doing a great job’
The Hill
Pope to oil execs: Energy needs mustn't destroy civilization
AP
VATICAN CITY -- Pope Francis told leading oil executives Saturday (June 9) that the transition to less-polluting energy sources "is a challenge of epochal proportions" and warned that satisfying the world's energy needs "must not destroy civilization."
West Virginia University Researcher to Study Fracking Effect
AP
MORGANTOWN, W.Va. (AP) — A West Virginia University assistant professor has received a $450,000 grant from the National Institutes of Health to look at how airborne particles that result from hydraulic fracturing affect human health.
The most toxic town in America
WESA
The Environmental Protection Agency named Kotzebue, Alaska, the worst industrially polluted town in the United States earlier this year. The not-so-bragworthy distinction came from an annual EPA data set called the Toxics Release Inventory.
New VA governor calls review of DEQ the first step in rebuilding it
Bay Journal
It’s been 25 years since four Virginia agencies coalesced to form the department charged with protecting the environment and public health. Now, one of the new governor’s first orders of business suggests it might be time for a makeover.
Opinion
WLOX Editorial: Let the punishment fit the crime
SOUTH MISSISSIPPI (WLOX) -A few unscrupulous commercial fishermen have ruined the commercial speckled trout fishing in Mississippi Waters for the season.
